Occupations of the Negroes

by Henry Gannett

Proportion of Negro Wage-earners to Negro Population.
Diagram No. 4.

Grouping of the States and Territories.
Diagram No. 5.

Proportions of Male and Female Wage-earners.
Diagram No. 6.

Proportion of Wage-Earners to Population.

The foregoing diagram No. 4 shows by the length of the bars the proportion which the negro wage-earners bore in 1890 to the negro population of each state. This proportion was greatest in the states and the territories of the west. Following these are the northeastern states, while the lower part of the column is made up of the states in the upper Mississippi valley and those of the south.

Occupations by Groups of States.

The distribution of wage-earners among the five occupation groups differed widely in different parts of the country. To study it, it will be sufficient to group the states and analyze the statistics of each group.